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You don’t need a skin condition, or to be covered in abnormal growths, or support gay rights, or bemoan the bullishness of capitalism, in order to love the new Pope. You just need a little humanity to appreciate the holy metamorphosis that has taken place in Vatican City. As if by some miracle, the heart of Pope Benedict the Grinch grew three sizes in Whoville, Italy to become today’s Pope Francis. Granted, all of this could be a finely-tuned marketing campaign, aimed to reactivate a Church so against the grain of popular opinion it gets splinters every time it speaks. Read More